The Audain Gallery at SFU Woodward’s presents Coming Soon, which addresses the realities of the Downtown Eastside and the context of the new location of the School for the Contemporary Arts: a highly-contested neighbourhood housing a new building project in the cornerstone of one of Vancouver's most well-known and beloved landmarks, Woodward’s.
The first commissioned work by Ken Lum will be shown in the Hastings Street windows of the Audain Gallery. Lum’s work will be followed by a window project by Vancouver artist Kathy Slade. Lorna Brown and Jamie Hilder present online projects specifically designed for the Audain Gallery website. To view projects, see audaingallery.ca.
The Audain Gallery hosts a panel discussion addressing questions regarding the different, and often competing, public and artistic expectations of art as a public discourse, January 23 at 3pm.
Lorna Brown is a Vancouver-based artist, writer and curator and has taught at Emily Carr University of Art and Design and Simon Fraser University. Brown was the curator of Group Search: art in the library, a series of artists’ projects at the Vancouver Public Library from 2006 to 2008, led the development of the Langara College Centre for Art in Public Spaces in Vancouver in 2008-2009, and was the Editor and Project Manager for the digital archive Ruins in Process: Vancouver Art in the Sixties. She received the Vancouver Institute for the Visual Arts Award in 1996 and the Canada Council Paris Studio Award in 2000. Her work has been exhibited internationally and is in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the BC Arts Council, the Surrey Art Gallery, and The Canada Council Art Bank.
Ken Lum is a Vancouver artist who has exhibited widely since 1982. Lum works in a variety of media and forms, from sculpture to photography. He is noted for his image/text works which often impart a wry social commentary. He has exhibited his work in numerous international exhibitions including 2008 Gwangju Biennale, 10th Istanbul Biennial and documenta 11. Lum has also curated exhibitions including the Sharjah Biennial 7 (co-curator) and Shanghai Modern: 1919 - 1945. Lum is also co-founder and founding editor of Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art.
Jamie Hilder is a Vancouver-based artist and critic whose practice engages issues of performance, economics, and urbanism. His year-long performance The Miracle Mile was exhibited at the Charles H. Scott Gallery in 2007, and his research-based installation, Island Developments, in collaboration with Brady Cranfield, was shown at Artspeak Gallery in 2008. He has participated in group shows and published writing in Canada, the United States, and England. He is currently completing a dissertation on the International Concrete Poetry Movement in the English Department at the University of British Columbia.
Kathy Slade is the 2009 winner of the prestigious VIVA Award. Her art practice includes a variety of media such as film, video, books, photography, embroidery and sculpture. She often uses text as a medium and primarily emphasizes pop cultural and musical references alongside Minimalism, Conceptualism, and other art historical and social movements. She has exhibited in Canada, China, Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States at institutions such as The Western Front, The Vancouver Art Gallery, and Temple Bar Gallery in Dublin. Slade is the founding editor of the Emily Carr University Press. She earned a BA from Simon Fraser University where she studied Visual Art and English.
